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Alfresco FTP Server limitations

cibex — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:21:24 GMT

Hello,we have a requirement to exchange files via FTP with customers.Number of customers: approx 100k, approx 100 files per userAfter input of credentials the external user should be connected to its own FTP home directoryFTP content should be replicated with a second internal Alfresco instanceDoes

Re: Alfresco FTP Server limitations

mrogers — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:50:19 GMT

Depending upon the volume of updates you may also want to consider a bulk ingestion process.

If you do decide to use ftp then I'd structure it with some sort of hirarchy. 100K enteries in a flat structure over any file system protocol is going to be problematic somewhere.

Re: Alfresco FTP Server limitations

cibex — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:17:32 GMT

thank you for your reply
do you have an idea how to map the authenticated ftp user to its nested homefolder? scripting?
eg:
-A
–Andrew
–Antony
-B
–Brigit
…

Re: Alfresco FTP Server limitations

scouil — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:59:02 GMT

Hello,

This topic seems to have a similar question:
http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/installation-upgrades-configuration-integration/configuration/ftp-home-folder-11152010-1439#p116585

Does it fit your needs?

Re: Alfresco FTP Server limitations

cibex — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:11:28 GMT

thanks that helps!